Within

No road to happiness or sorrow --
find them in yourself.

Support

The peony is beautiful

yet it is supported by a stalk.

Persistence

Three feet

of ice --

not frozen

in one day.

Happiness

To be happy for an hour

-- roast a pig.
To be happy for a year

-- take a wife.
To be happy for a lifetime

- plant a garden.

Ripe

When the melon ripens,

it will fall of itself.

Hunting

When the mantis hunts the locust he forgets the shrike* that's hunting him.

*predatory bird

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Darkness

If in the dark he kneels to pray,
he really prays.

Learning

Learning is weightless treasure you always carry easily.

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More than one tree

More than one tree

gave wood

to build this temple.

Memory

The best memory . . .
not so firm as faded ink.

Singing Bird

If I keep a green bough in my heart,

the singing bird will come.